lucid

So I haven't any LD's in a while, but I had a good feeling this time around. I was walking through some kind of museum, and it suddenly hit me. I did the hold your nose test to make sure, and it worked. I had never done that RC before, and it was a really cool feeling to still be able to breathe. I then pointed it out to a DC, and she realized she could do it too. I was feeling so conscious, so in control. I walked into another room at the museum, and the entire room was full of flashing lights and crazy colors. Nobody else seemed to enjoy it as much as me. I then decided to try and find certain people in my dream. There were two girls that were headed on their way to a party, and I decided to come with them. We ended up talking to one of their mom's about the fact that I was controlling everything that was happening, it was really cool. We were driving in a sweet car, and suddenly the radio turned on. It was super loud, and it made me start losing focus on the dream. I frantically tried to turn off the music, but the radio wasn't working. I then convinced myself that the music must be coming from outside my dream in the real world. I started screaming to turn it off, hoping that I would talk in my sleep and someone would hear me. The idea that I could try and change things in the real world based on my actions in the dream has never occured to me before in a dream. I had a much deeper understanding of the idea that I was sleeping in my bed, and it was all in my head. I hope to have more dreams this clear in the future. I then had a false awakening, in which I got up to post my dream on Dreamviews. It was the most realistic dream I have ever had in my life. I had a perfect replica of my living room. I had a checked my reflection in the mirror, and it was just as good as real life. I even remember thinking that I should to a RC just so I could get in the habit of doing them in dreams, but I decided I already knew it was reality so it was useless. I was completely shocked when I woke up for real. Very cool night for me.

So I decided to try a WILD for the first time last night. I planned it all out before I went to bed, setting my alarm and deciding what I would do when I woke up. It was all going well, I woke up at 5:00, went to the bathroom, and went to the fridge to grab the bottle of apple juice I bought the night before. I then went back to bed, and tried a few of the techniques I learned from Dream Views. I found it was very easy for me to relax, and the whole process happened very quickly. I heard some strange noises and saw weird patterns as I entered the dream. I wasn’t as lucid as I expected to be, and I had very little control of the dream. It was like I was Mario from a video game, and I had to do certain tasks. Anyway, It went ok and I woke up from the dream at 5:30 and went back to bed. Then this morning, I open my fridge and see my bottle of apple juice still there, right where I left it the night before. Suddenly I realized that I never got out of my bed at all, that drinking the apple juice was already part of my dream. So I guess I woke up at 5:00, and then fell back asleep and started dreaming it all. But the WILD felt so real, and I had never had one before so I didn’t know what to expect. It was a confusing experience, but I'm definitely looking forward to experimenting more.